research
PUBLICATIONS
Wanting is not expected utility. Forthcoming in the Journal of Philosophy. [link]
Truth-conditional variability of color ascriptions: empirical results concerning the polysemy hypothesis. (with Adrian Ziółkowski) forthcoming in Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy Vol. 5 (eds. J. Knobe & S. Nichols) [link]
Associative exportation. P. Stalmaszczyk & M. Hinton (eds.), "Philosophical Approaches to Language and Communication," Berlin: Peter Lang, 2022: 343-357. [link]
Objective and epistemic gradability: is the New Angle on the Knobe Effect empirically grounded? (with Bartosz Maćkiewicz), Philosophical Psychology 2019 32(2): 234-256. [link]
Sophisticated textualism and sanctions. Studia Iuridica 2019 82: 343-357.
Against ‘the input view’ of legal gaps. Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej 2019 2(20): 75-88.
Can a consequentialist be a good friend? Etyka 2016 52: 56-79.
WORK IN PROGRESS
A paper on desire reports. (R&R at Analysis)
A paper on slur reclamation. (R&R at the Australasian Journal of Philosophy)
Reclamation of a slur involves a creation of a new, positively-valenced meaning that gradually replaces the old pejorative meaning. This means that at a critical stage, the slur is ambiguous. It has been claimed that this ambiguity is polysemy. However, this view fails to explain why the introduction of the new meaning forces the old one out of existence. I argue that this datapoint can be explained by invoking the mechanism of homonymic conflict, and, therefore, that the ambiguity involved in reclamation is homonymy. I argue that my account provides a neat way of conceptualizing the difference between two types of conceptual engineering, namely reclamation and amelioration. I conclude by suggesting that we need to rethink the standard ways of drawing the distinction between polysemy and homonymy.
keywords: polysemy, homonymy, ambiguity, slurs, reclamation, homonymic conflictA paper on philosophical method. (under review)
A paper on belief ascription. (under review)
Truth-value judgments. (with Kevin Reuter and Eric Mandelbaum)(in preparation)
Folk ontological relativism. (with Kevin Reuter and Eric Mandelbaum)(in preparation)
A paper on gossip. (Title TBD) (with Shannon Brick)
keywords: truth-value judgments, semantics, contextualism, color predicates, experimental philosophy
keywords: truth-value judgments, semantics, contextualism, color predicates, experimental philosophy